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Record Multiple Internet Radio Stations

July 18, 2008

Recording Internet Radio for private use is legal in most countries.

Add Favicons To Websites Without One

July 18, 2008

Favicons are a great way to identify websites visually and it is even possible to display only the Favicon in tabs with the FaviconizeTab add-on for Firefox.

Desktop Apps with Bubble

July 18, 2008

I must admit I had never heard of Bubbles before I tried out the time tracking service SlimTimer.

Data Can Leak From Partially Encrypted Systems

July 18, 2008

A bunch of researchers, among them the famous Bruce Schneier, have discovered that features like Recent Documents list may reveal information about files on an

Separating your social and real life

July 18, 2008

I just realized this the other day, social sites send an awful lot of "quasi-junk" mail to inboxes around the world.

Gmail Has a Privacy Problem

July 18, 2008

You might have already read elsewhere that it is possible to reveal the real name of any Gmail user by sharing a calendar in Google Calendar with him.

OpenDrive Online Disk

July 17, 2008

Online storage services are slowly moving from being pure file hosting websites to those that provide additional values to their users by offering desktop appli

Keep Track Of Your Running Progress

July 17, 2008

I already covered a software that would calculate the fuel consumption of your car and now it's time to present a similar application for runners to keep track

Compare Directories and Copy Unique Files

July 17, 2008

Third Dir is an interesting software created by the Slovakian software developer Robert VaÅ¡ÃÄek.

Update on my PayPal Story

July 17, 2008

I noticed in the beginning of July that someone else transferred most of the money that had been in my PayPal account to an online hoster to buy six month acces

STDU Viewer For Tiff, PDF and DjVU documents

July 17, 2008

I recently stumbled upon STDU Viewer (Scientific and Technical Documentation Viewer), a viewer for tiff, pdf and DjVU documents, the formats often used in scien

Hydra IRC Client

July 16, 2008

I have been connecting to IRC on a daily basis about ten years ago but stopped doing so.

Create Outlook Tasks From The Command Line And Launchy

July 16, 2008

Gianluigi sent me an interesting email just a few minutes ago that described a small script that he wrote that allows you to create Outlook tasks from the comma

Automatically Scan, Convert and Burn Multi-Page Papers

July 16, 2008

I once had the pleasure to scan hundreds of papers manually which was a tedious job that took hours to complete.

Send Free SMS with iPhone and iPod Touch

July 16, 2008

Phone Providers are making lots of cash from SMS, the Short Messaging Service.

Do Specific Data Backups With Tame

July 15, 2008

Tame is a specialized backup solution that can monitor applications and perform backups once those applications close.

Manage Your Fuel Consumption

July 15, 2008

Everyone I know who owns a car is cursing about the increasing fuel costs.

Move Firefox Tabs To The Sidebar

July 15, 2008

Update: Sidebar Tabs is no longer compatible with recent versions of the Firefox browser.

Zen Key An All Purpose Application Manager

July 15, 2008

It's sometimes a little feature that makes me want to download and install a software.

Track the location of your notebook with Adeona

July 14, 2008

Adeona is a free Open-Source software to track your computer.

Firefly Firefox File Browser

July 14, 2008

Update: The file browser for Firefox has not been updated since 2008.

Google Alerts

July 14, 2008

Google Alerts are a great way of keeping in touch with certain changes in the Google index.

Paint With Shockdraw By Tilting Your Notebook

July 14, 2008

Binary Fortress Software is best known for their wallpaper software Display Fusion but also home to some other interesting software products.

Meebone - Desktop Meebo

July 14, 2008

Another Day, another Adobe Air app, that's just the way I like it! I love Meebo, and the only reason I don't use it is that it's a browser based application.

Smart Data Recovery Enterprise

July 14, 2008

Smart Data Recovery Enterprise is despite the Enterprise part of the name a free product that can recover data remotely over a network.

Netgear WGR614L Open Source Wireless-G Router

July 14, 2008

Netgear decided to hop onto the Open-Source bandwagon by developing a wireless router that would take user created firmwares without complaints, heck that was d

A Host of Tips – Week 1

July 14, 2008

As I read a large selection of RSS feeds each day I see a whole lot of great little tech tips coming through, and often I want to share them, but that […

What Would You do with a 1.5 Terabyte Hard Drive?

July 13, 2008

When I got my first computer, my hard drive was all of 2.

Send Reminders, Alerts and Invitations with Phonevite

July 13, 2008

I bet we could all use a reminder from time to time and what could be better than to receive a recorded call with your own voice that is reminding you at [&hell

Gmail Labs quicklinks to find anything in a flash

July 13, 2008

Gmail Quick Links is a new feature rolled out in Google Labs for Gmail which enables you to create some links for frequents searches, but it can be used for muc

Torrent Episode Downloader

July 13, 2008

TV Shows are one of the most popular media that get downloaded from Bittorrent.

Sourceforge 2008 Community Awards

July 13, 2008

Voting is already underway for the 2008 Sourceforge Community Awards which for the first time allowed nominations for projects that are not hosted at the websit

Optimize Firefox For Low Traffic Volumes

July 13, 2008

I sometimes connect my Nokia N73 mobile phone to my Toshiba notebook to connect to the Internet and do some urgent stuff like checking and replying to mails, wr

Online Calculator eCalc

July 12, 2008

Every operating system comes with a calculator that provides access to basic arithmetic functions and probably some additional ones like base conversions and so